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December 08, 2007

Toxic 'Pig Brain Mist'

Today's story of real life imitating Gothic stories comes from the American upper midwest. It concerns the outbreak of a nasty illness among slaughterhouse workers, and involves a lot of horror. ABC News leads off with the title: "Toxic 'Pig Brain Mist'".

The pig-killing process involves blasting pig brains into the workshop's air, which might bear illnesses into the lungs of workers inhaling that miasma.